Employability
Welcome Readers to blog post ‘Employability’ which explores unemployment, reasons of lack of employability, measures of employability.
As you know India’s economy is predominantly agrarian, with low levels of capital and industrial productivity as well as a labor surplus society. In India after independence, underemployment and unemployment have long been critical problems. Although, India produces 50 lakh graduates each year, research and surveys indicate that there is still a serious problem for their jobs.
What Is Unemployment?
A person who looks for work but is not able to find it is said to be unemployed. When someone wants to work but can’t find employment, they become unemployed. This is like two side of coin, one side of the issue is growing unemployment , while the other dark side is have to be unemployability.
What is Unemployability?
Unemployability basically means that even if there are vacancies, the company isn’t prepared to hire because the candidates don’t have the necessary skills to take advantage of them and perform their job. Former President of India, Late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, expressed concern about the issue of unemployability. This was made clear in his speech at Bangalore University’s convocation, when he stated, “The issue of ‘unemployability’ is a bigger crisis; unemployment is not a major problem.” This is true, these days; the percentage of Indian graduates who are unemployed is rising. A majority of Indian graduates cannot find employment in the modern knowledge-based economy.
What do you mean by Employability?
Someone says to Employable who has skills or abilities those are likely to an employer’s interest in hiring them.
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Reasons of lack of Employability
The following are a few causes of unemployment in India:
Capacity to Fulfill the Needs of the Workforce
By all mean, the capacity of employees to meet job demands is a crucial aspect of employability. Employers who want to hire the best candidates try identify those who possess the skills and abilities needed to fit into the company’s needs and contribute to its success.
Insufficient and competent instructors
The most potential tool is education, but when good it is, if there are enough job opportunities to go around. Education is the most powerful tool but skills not seem to provide enough employment opportunities by traditional education. Both teachers and students have lack flexibility in their learning. Only theoretical subjects taught in Indian colleges that not creates enough growth and development of students.
The harsh truth about Indians is that a large number of them, continue to live in a bubble of dreams. These youth thinking that enrolling in college will lead to countless well-paying jobs. Be sure that currently, having only a degree does not ensure that a person will be able to find employment because there are more graduates than the jobs.
Lack of Employability Skills
Besides engineering was once thought of as a royal professional education, but today only 3.84% of engineering graduates possess the technical, linguistic, and cognitive skills. These are skills required for Software Company or get entry into organization. The programming and algorithmic skills required to work in IT companies are not sufficiently possessed by engineers.
In addition to technical abilities, soft skills like teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and flexibility are crucial and will always watch during the hiring process. Today Graduates are unfamiliar with these cutting-edge tech abilities.
Impact of AI
The application of AI nowadays results in the redefining of job roles, which affects the jobs of blue-collar workers and AI replace new jobs which job these past blue collar worker cannot perform. Impact of AI is transformation of nature of job in new version of job.
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Measures of Employability
Self Motivated Person
Employers always like to hire self-motivated workers. If an employer wastes his time to help an employee with their daily tasks, they cannot run their business effectively. If Employers who have to continuously remind an employee to complete their work on time, it is also not good for company. Employers always prefer to hire an employee who takes the initiative to quickly pick up new tasks and finish them without direct supervision.
Ability to adapt Employability
Ability to adapt Employability is being flexible in the face of shifting work environments and prepares himself as a strong candidate for jobs. Possessing adaptability skills entails being receptive to new information and eager to take on challenges.
Employability Skills
Enhancing your employability can be achieved through education, gaining work experience, and developing yourself.
Technical Skills as per job requirement
Technical skills to perform are the job oriented skills those are necessary for the performance of specific tasks or activities.
Nontechnical Skills
These are also important skills. They include skills that can be practiced, like empathy, teamwork, leadership, communication, good manners, negotiation, sociability, ability to teach, and attention to detail, as well as personality traits, like optimism, common sense, and responsibility, a sense of humor, integrity, enthusiasm, attitude, Cultural Competence Proficiency, Language Proficiency, Networking Proficiency and ethics.
Advanced computer skills
For instance, careers in IT, software development, marketing, and finance all require proficiency with computers. Additionally, having computer skills can make you stand out from the competition, improve your chances of getting hired, and raise your pay. Today’s jobs require a basic understanding of computers, including the ability to use programs like the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), navigate email and the internet, understand file management concepts (creating, saving, and organizing files), and be familiar with basic troubleshooting methods.
Knowledge of other Tools
Some of the other necessary tools are:
Social Media
Presentation Software
Google Slides, Spreadsheets
Tableau or Power BI
ERP software
Open Office Impress
Keynote
Graphic Design Skills
Hardware Skills
Presentation of Your Employability in your resume
A resume is a formal document that candidates produce for a job indicating their skills, work history, and qualifications for the position. Typically, a resume is accompanied by a tailored cover letter in which the applicant highlights the most pertinent information on the resume and indicates interest in a particular position or business. The header, education, work history, projects, accomplishments, talents, and coursework should all be included in resume.
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Generate Jobs with increasing manufacturing industries for Employability
With over millions of jobs worldwide, manufacturing sector will plays a important role in both inclusive and sustainable industrial development. Nations must shift sectors with lower to higher levels of technology, from those with lower to higher value addition education, and from those with lower to higher levels of productivity.
Conclusion
Finally, for startups, enterprises, and institutions, create strategic alliances and a productive partnership is key step in solving the unemployability issue. A change in the educational program starting in preschool will contribute to the child’s brain transformation. Attaining a higher level of competency requires training, and then positive outcomes from industry and academic collaboration have been observed. In our opinion, the purpose of an educational institution should be to support each student’s holistic growth rather than just getting them to memorize facts. The education system actively participates in preparing each student for the workforce by providing them with the necessary skills. We think that while academics are vital for the theoretical aspects of the job, you also need to know the practical aspects of the job to impress employers. Keep Reading! Thank You!
